Dedicated Transportation Solutions

COMPANY HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
We believe in treating people right and doing what we say. We make decisions, and execute quickly, without the need to have meetings upon meetings and discussions for weeks. We believe in account retention, referrals and organic growth through hard work. DTS has grown year over year through long-term relationships with our customers, employees and vendors. Our philisophy, culture and core values of, Safely, Legally, Ethically, Morally, and Profitably servicing our customers continues to benefit all involved.

MISSION STATEMENT
Our core values of INTEGRITY, EFFORT, and DEPENDABILITY allow us to build trusted long-term operational and financial relationships with our customers, employees, and vendors. By combining technology, planning and training with employee empowerment and proactive execution, we quickly and decisively prioritize decisions with regard to safety, legal, ethical, and moral concerns that consistently result in quality outcomes that are profitable for all.

SOLUTIONS
We take a consultative approach to each customer. Needs, spend, products, service requirements, and KPI’s are all different, and so should the transportation solution be.

Moving perishable products such as bread, ice, or newspaper, is very different than recyclables, lumber, or liquid. Therefore the transportation solutions will be varied to meet the individual customer’s product and service requirements and goals. The first step in our process is information gathering to determine specific problems or areas of concern. We need to know what is being done currently, what is working and what is not. We will meet individually with employees involved in the process from floor employees to the officer level. With this approach we are able to determine any problem areas affecting the various employees and identify any conflict areas. These conflicts could include finance wanting to reduce delivery expense while sales wants to increase delivery frequency, or production wanting to load trailers in the morning instead of at night thereby changing the delivery windows.

After determining goals, needs, and wants of all involved, our team works to develop a solution that best meets the overall goals of the company. From this process we develop alternate solutions that range from simple driver management, to routing and scheduling, to complete turnkey solutions involving warehousing, and all inbound and outbound transportation. We present these to the stakeholders, validating operational assumptions and finally determine the optimal solution that meets all cost and service goals.

There are no two exactly alike. Our focus in transportation is to maximize the utilization of the truck, trailer, and driver while meeting all federal, state, and local laws. In doing this we are able to be more cost effective than most private fleets can operate in today’s environment.